Sunday, Aug 11, 2013 at 18:21
John, being an
Alice Springs local I'll just give you a few ideas out here....
1) Go and visit the Royal Flying Doctor visitor center, buy a coffee and poke around (I'm biased, my wife is a nurse for them).
2) Telegraph station on the northside of town, awesome for a picnic, free BBQ facilities.
3) Drive 30km north of town to the
Tropic of Capricorn and take your photo :-)
4) East McDonald Ranges (east of town), you have
Ross River resort, Trephena
Gorge, about 70km out I think.
Gorge has a great
rim walk but again dont do it in the heat of the day, gets very hot with the heat reflected from the rocks.
5) West Mcdonald Ranges, more to see. Can suggest going out to
Glen Helen, on the way there are a number of gorges, Ormiston being the most impressive.
6) If you're on the way to West Mac's and want to
bush camp, about 10km after you turn right to
Glen Helen (straight ahead is Hermansbug on larapinta Drive), there is a
river crossing (dry). Free
bush camping, its awesome...drive in a few KMs....its so nice. Look for the "Hugh River" crossing on your map.
7) Once you leave
Glen Helen follow the road to Goss's
Bluff, HUGE meteroite crater..
8) Keep going, you will hit a t-road, turn right and this is the Merindee loop that goes to Kings Canyon.
9) While Uluru is "nice', go and walk Kings Canyon (early morning as its getting hot out here). If you wanna blow the cash book in for a "dinner under the stars" event. Its worth doing once in your life, Dinner out in teh bush with a "Stargaze" talk.
10) Do the Olgas, valley of the winds walk, its a few hours, impressive :-)
11) Once you start to head
home on that road you'll go past
Curtin Springs, you must stop and
check the place out, dont hesitate to stay there if needed, great place and good tucker...
12) Oh forgot to mention, across road from RFDS is "the reptile center", cant miss it, go and look. Also on north side there is a visitors center at "School of the air", its signposted, definitely worth a look
13) If you need car bits in town, we have a repco, supercheap auto....
14) General hardware, Bunnings on north side of town for other stuff.
15) If you rip your daks, we have a HUGE Kmart and Target (country)
16) Fruit n veggies, Coles and Woolies. Bring your shopper dockets, the fuel here isnt cheap.
17) If you wanna stay overnight in town, Heavitree Gap Park/Lodge. its a safe and friendly place, you can feed
the rock wallabies at sunset.
18) Oh Araleun Cultural Center on larapinta drive, nice to look around. Just behind them on the corner of memorial and Larapinta is the "Conellan Airline" hanger. It should be open, its free, walk around and look at the old planes. Right next to Conellan is a large graveyard, go and find Albert Namatijra's grave.. Some bleep burnt down his "twin white gums" on larapinta drive so its no more :-(
If you need any more info, don't hesitate to ask :-)
Pete
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